WriteMailSlot                   User Manual                   WriteMailSlot

NAME    WriteMailSlot.exe - Writes text messages to a mailslot

VERSION
        1.0 2000.10.23 (Oct 23, 2000)

SYNOPSIS
	[Piped text |] WriteMailSlot MailslotName ["message"] [< text file]

LICENSE
	Unlimited use and unlimited redistribution.

DESCRIPTION
	This program writes a message to an existing mailslot, provided that
	the mailslot exists on a computer in the domain of the sender.

	MailslotName is of the format:

		\\ComputerOrDomain\mailslot\[pseudo-path\]name

	Examples of mailslot names:

		\\.\mailslot\MySlot
		\\*\mailslot\OurSlot
		\\MarysComputer\mailslot\MarysSlot
		\\OurDomain\mailslot\Engineering\Design\Page\Bugs

	ComputerOrDomain can be a computer name, a domain name, a period
	('.') to signify the local computer, or an asterisk ('*') to signify
	the primary domain. If a computer name (or period) is used, the
	mailslot must exist on that computer. If a domain name (or asterisk)
	is used, the mailslot must exist on one or more computers in that
	domain and the message will be sent to each mailslot with the
	specified name.

	Messages can be entered on the command line, piped in, or redirected
	from a file, but only one of the methods will work at a time.

BUGS
	Make bug reports to <Page@Westlake.to>.
	2000.08.11:     No bugs have been observed.

AUTHOR
        Frank P. Westlake <Page@Westlake.to>
        <http://Frank.Westlake.org/page/>

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